Candies
General Directions
Granulated sugar is preferred in ordinary candy-making. Cream of tartar should not be added until the syrup begins to boil. Butter should…
How to Pull Candy
Boil the candy until it becomes brittle when tried in water; then turn on a buttered platter. When cool enough to handle, butter your hands…
Butter Scotch
1 cupful of molasses, 1 cupful of butter. Boil until the mixture forms a soft ball when tried in cold water.
Bonbons
Take fresh candied orange rind, or citron. Scrape off the sugar that adheres to it; then cut into small squares. Boil some sugar to the…
Chocolate Caramels
1 cupful of sweet milk, 1 cupful of molasses, 1/2 cupful of sugar, 1/2 a cupful of grated chocolate, a piece of butter the size of an egg…
Cream Caramels
2 cupfuls sugar, 1 cupful of milk or cream; flavor with vanilla to taste. Cook sugar and milk until the mixture forms a soft ball in cold…
Lemon and Peppermint Drops
Take the desired quantity of granulated sugar; add a very little water, just enough to make with the sugar a stiff paste. 2 ounces of water…
Plain Taffy
2 cupfuls of white sugar, 1/2 cupful of water, 1 tablespoonful of vinegar, a piece of butter the size of an egg. Flavor with vanilla just…
Cream Cocoanut Candy
Take 1 1/2 pounds of sugar, 1/2 cupful of milk. Boil ten minutes, then add 1 grated cocoanut. Boil until thick. Put on greased pans quite…
Cooked Cream Walnuts
2 cupfuls sugar, 2/3 cupful water. Boil without stirring until it will spin a thread; flavor with extract vanilla. Set off into dish with…
Uncooked Creamed Nuts
Mix 1 pound confectioner's sugar, white 1 unbeaten egg, 1 teaspoonful vanilla, and 2 teaspoonfuls cold water to a stiff paste. Shape in…
Hickory-Nut Candy
1 cupful hickory nuts (meats), 2 cupfuls sugar, 1/2 cupful water. Boil sugar and water, without stirring, until thick enough to spin a…
Velvet Molasses Candy
Put 1 1/2 pounds sugar, 1/2 pint molasses, 1/2 pint water, 1/4 cupful vinegar, in agate kettle. Heat; when boiling add 1/2 teaspoonful…
Peanut Brittle
Shell and chop roasted nuts to measure 1 pint. Put 2 pounds granulated sugar in clean frying-pan. Stir over slow fire. It will lump, then…
Maple Sugar Caramel
1 pint of cream, 1 pound maple sugar. Break the sugar into small pieces, mix with the cream, and cook until it sugars around the edge of…
Fudges
2 cupfuls brown sugar, 2 cupfuls white sugar (or use all white sugar), 1 cupful milk, a piece of butter size of a walnut, 2 squares…
Ponouchi
2 cupfuls brown sugar, 2 cupfuls white sugar, 1 cupful milk, a piece of butter size of a walnut. Use either walnuts or hickory nuts…
Comanche
Make both the above recipes. Pour the brown fudge into a buttered pan, and pour the white fudge over it.
Nougat
Nougat is a sort of paste made of sugar, almonds, pistachio nuts, or filberts, and used by confectioners for making pretty sweet dishes. A…
Almond Creams
Blanch and pound 5 ounces of sweet and 1 ounce of bitter almonds to a paste; put to this loaf sugar to taste, rubbed with lemon rind and…
Almond Chocolate Drops
Put a metal mortar in a hot oven till it is well heated; throw into it a quarter of a pound of cake chocolate broken into small pieces…
Popcorn Balls
Boil 1 pint New Orleans molasses and 3/4 cupful of sugar until brittle when dipped into cold water. Pour over popcorn; mix together…